Truss Manufacturing · Illinois

Hbs - Kirkland Components

Kirkland, IL · ~76 workers · 3 years of OSHA Injury Tracking Application data.

F
Failing Safety Record
7.5
Avg TCR
3.3
Industry avg
0
Fatalities
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The verdict

Hbs - Kirkland Components runs at 228% of its industry's injury rate - far more dangerous than the typical Truss Manufacturing workplace, earning a grade F.

Hbs - Kirkland Components: 7.5 TCR = 228% of Truss Manufacturing BLS 3.3 · 3y Form 300A (see methodology below)

Hbs - Kirkland Components safety composite

Hbs - Kirkland Components scores strongest on fatalities (safer than 50% of same-industry peers) and weakest on dart rate (safer than 31%), blended into one 0-100 breakdown against same-industry peers. A missing measure drops out and redistributes its weight rather than deflating the score. This is a per-dimension breakdown, distinct from the single letter grade above it (which weights TCR alone against the BLS industry benchmark).

D

41/100

Percentile-weighted across 3 of 3 measures

Total Case Rate (TCR)
D 7.53 per 100 workers

Safer than 45% of industry peers

DART rate
F 5.92 per 100 workers

Safer than 31% of industry peers

Fatalities
D 0

Safer than 50% of industry peers

Benchmarked live against every credibly-rated employer in the same NAICS industry code in the current OSHA extract (a segment must have at least 8 rated peers to benchmark). Not a legal or compliance determination; PlainSafetyScore's own weighting (TCR 40%, DART 35%, fatalities 25%).

Rising injury rate

Hbs - Kirkland Components: 8.5 → 9.5 TCR

Peak year 2024 @ 9.5 TCR · DART/TCR 0.79× in 2024

Hbs - Kirkland Components's TCR rose 1.0 from 8.5 in 2022 to 9.5 in 2024. In 2024, DART was 0.79× this establishment's average TCR (severity share of cases).

OSHA ITA Form 300A scorecard

Establishment book 321214 · Kirkland, IL ABOVE-IND · SMALL

Grade F · TCR 7.5 · 228% of ind

  • DART 5.9 DART
  • RANK #9/14
  • PHOTO Panel Truss Hearne LLC
  • BOOK 3y book
  • INJ 14 inj
  • SIZE ~76 FTE

Nearest TCR peer: Panel Truss Hearne LLC (0.0 TCR gap)

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Hbs - Kirkland Components in the TCR neighbourhood

Average Total Case Rate among this establishment and nearest same-industry peers

TCR

What this shows Hbs - Kirkland Components averages 7.5 TCR (228% of the Truss Manufacturing BLS benchmark).

Source U.S. Department of Labor, OSHA Injury Tracking Application (Form 300A) As of 2026-08-25

Hbs - Kirkland Components TCR series: 2022=8.5 · 2023=4.7 · 2024=9.5 · BLS 3.3

Where Hbs - Kirkland Components falls in its industry

421 Truss Manufacturing establishments

Safer than 45% of graded establishments in this industry, whose median TCR is 7.0.

More dangerous than peersSafer than peers

Narrower to Illinois alone (the establishments it most directly competes with for workers and contracts): ranked #9 safest of 14 Truss Manufacturing employers in Illinois.

Hbs - Kirkland Components (76 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0 2×2 strategic matrix plotting 30 entities by Average employees (X) and Total Case Rate (Y), with a crosshair dividing the plot into four quadrants. Larger & higher-riskSmaller & higher-riskLarger & saferSmaller & safer than peers 02004006008001,000 0102030 Average employees Total Case Rate Hbs - Kirkland Components
Hbs - Kirkland Components (76 employees, TCR 7.5) among 29 same-industry peers, split at the industry median of 55 employees and a TCR of 7.0

Hbs - Kirkland Components has more employees than the Truss Manufacturing median and a higher injury rate than the industry's median TCR of 7.0. Workforce size and injury rate do not always move together within the same industry -- some of its smaller peers run higher rates than its larger ones, and vice versa.

Year-by-Year Safety Data

Year TCR DART Injuries Illnesses Fatalities
2024 9.5 5.9 6 2 0
2023 4.7 3.1 3 0 0
2022 8.5 8.5 5 0 0

OSHA ITA peer cross-reference

Establishment peer ledger

321214 · IL · Kirkland

421 Truss Manufacturing employers nationwide with a credible TCR · 22,804 rated employers in Illinois with headcount on file · 5 employers in Kirkland, IL · 4 cross-state NAT-TCR peers · 4 cross-state NAT-SIZE peers. Closest matches by relationship code are listed below.

Rel Establishment Metric
NAICS-TCR Panel Truss Hearne LLC 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR 4902 - McKenzie Truss Plant 7.6 TCR
NAICS-TCR BBS - SCHENECTADY TRUSS 7.5 TCR
NAICS-TCR Truswood Inc - Raleigh Division 7.5 TCR
STATE-SIZE Rend Lake Conservancy District 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE CORE Construction Services of Illinois, Inc. 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Greenville Headquarters 76 FTE
STATE-SIZE Keeley & Sons, Inc. 76 FTE
CITY-NEAR HBS - KIRKLAND MILLWORK 97 FTE
CITY-NEAR Kirkland Millwork 88 FTE
CITY-NEAR Hines Kirkland Components (Truss) 60 FTE
CITY-NEAR Euclid Kirkland 49 FTE
NAT-TCR Plascon Inc. 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Howlett Logistics LLC 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Berje Inc 7.5 TCR
NAT-TCR Canterbury Woods 7.5 TCR
NAT-SIZE Lyft TBS Warehouse DCA 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE FirstSteps for Kids, Inc. 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE Kingston 76 FTE
NAT-SIZE H6div-Ph-H6 Division 76 FTE

Rel codes: NAICS-TCR · STATE-SIZE · CITY-NEAR · NAT-TCR/NAT-SIZE cross-state. Read with this employer →

Data Source: OSHA Injury Tracking Application (ITA), mandatory establishment-level injury/illness reports. Grades compare employer Total Case Rate (TCR) to BLS IIF industry benchmarks. Data covers years reported by this establishment: 2024, 2023, 2022. This is publicly available government data - not a legal determination of workplace conditions.

Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

Data sourced from official public datasets. See our methodology for details.